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9 days agoIn this situation that would be the correct response.
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2·12 days agoIt’s not entirely clear what he’s referring to, he just uses the term AI broadly in the context of people being worried about job losses, then talks about the reduction in secret police costs that enables, then discusses applying AI to physics.
Tl;dw: he has two points:
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That between cameras and now AI monitoring, it has just drastically reduced the cost of running an authoritarian regime. He claims that running the Stahsi used to cost like 20% of the government budget, but can now be done for next to nothing and if will be harder for governments to resist that temptation.
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That there hasn’t been much progress in the world of physics since the 70s, so what happens if you point AI and it’s compute power at the field of physics? It could see wondrous progress and a world of plenty.
Personally I think point 1 is genuinely interesting and valid, and that point 2 is kind of incredible nonsense. Yes, all other fields are just simplified forms of physics, and physics fundamentally underlies all of them. That doesn’t mean that no new knowledge has come from those fields, and that doesn’t mean that new knowledge in physics automatically improves them. Physics has in many ways, done its job. Obviously there’s still more to learn, but between quantum mechanics and general relativity, we can model most human scale processes in our universe, with incredible precision. The problem is that that the closer we get to understanding the true underlying math of the universe, the harder it is to compute that math for a practical system… at a certain point, it requires a computer on the scale of the universe to compute.
Most of our practical improvements in the past decade have and will come from chemistry, and biology, and engineering in general, because there is far more room to improve human scale processes by finding shortcuts, and patterns, and designing systems to behave the way we want. AI’s computer scale pattern matching ability will undoubtedly help with that, but I think it’s less likely that it can make any true physics breakthroughs, nor that those breakthroughs would impact daily life that much.
Again though, I think that point number 1 is incredibly valid. At the end of the day incentives, and specifically cost incentives, drive a massive amount of behaviour. It’s worth thinking about how how AI changes them.
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Decentralized identity management / verification is still the biggest unsolved problem of the fediverse, and inherently pressures things towards centralization.
9·29 days agoThe Turing test is most specifically highlighted in movies like Blade Runner or Ex Machina where it’s a noire with a lone robot in a room being tested. In reality the future is more like Westworld where there are so many robots that can pass a basic Turing test that people are constantly engaged in more intense Turing tests at all times.
Yes you are, and it’s rather embarassing in light of being handily proven to be wrong.
Name a developed country, and I’ll point you to a power outage and a need for backup generators. Here, how about I start:
Canada ✅, Norway ✅, Switzerland ✅, The UK ✅, Belgium ✅, Costa Rica ✅, Japan ✅, South Korea ✅
So please do go ahead and tell us your mythical country that doesn’t ever have power outages due to inclement weather?
Oh what’s that? You can’t name one?
So no country in the world is developed then? Because literally every single country in the world has power outages.
Lmfao, you sweet innocent indoor cat.
Yeah, but that model does not work when you live out in the country. That’s literally a model that only works past a certain population density.
It is extremely common for people in the country to have massive propane tanks for heating and backup diesel generators for power, here in Canada.
It’s just called living in real life and not just the internet.
Those apps don’t guarantee availability. We have them here in Canada, formerly Car2Go, now Communauto, and they’re great, but a) they are still a car, and b) availability is not guaranteed. Most weekends all the cars are gone by 9am.
Lol, that’s not toxic energy, that’s appropriate energy in response to OP being a naiive dumbass.
This video does a good job breaking down the core of the truth of why and how altruism arises, and why not everyone is altruistic:
The reality is that evolution and the natural world does not care about individuals, or groups, or species. It is selecting for genes and genes dont give one flying fuck about anything other than whether they help more copies of themselves exist in the world. Sometimes that’s altruistic, sometimes it’s not.
Some hate, at least reactionary hate to circumstances, is inherent in humans, otherwise it wouldn’t be here.
Who taught us hate if not us?
Honestly I haven’t seen a single article written by someone who actually understands the mathematics involved so I call a huge amount of HORSeSHIT on your headline.
Omg, a sustainable, repairable, and open source project costs the same as a closed source, non repairable, locked down option … Those are totally the same thing!
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There is an open source project to replace the innards:
Honestly, Germany should be thanking this man for pushing their country forward.
Yeah, yeah it is. It’s got Conor McGregor in there as a villain, so you have to be ok with that, but if you are, it’s honestly just a lot of fun. There’s an unhingedness to it all that really tickles me in the right spot.
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